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  • The Measure of a Child - What Happens Between Knowing and Showing

    by Dr. Henric L. Horace ...
    What if the moment we use to measure someone is the very moment they cannot show us what they know?Every day, people are measured through tests, grades, interviews, evaluations, behaviors, decisions, and moments of performance. From those moments, we make judgments about intelligence, readiness, ability, potential, and sometimes even a person's future.But what if performance does not always reveal ... Read more

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  • THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO

    by HORACE WALPOLE. ...
    HORACE WALPOLE was the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, the great statesman, who died Earl of Orford. He was born in 1717, the year in which his father resigned office, remaining in opposition for almost three years before his return to a long tenure of power. Horace Walpole was educated at Eton, where he formed a school friendship with Thomas Gray, who was but a few months older. In 1739 Gray ... Read more

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  • Hieroglyphic Tales

    by Horace Walpole ...
    Series series Gothic & Horror
    Six tales so strange that Walpole printed only six copies and told friends they were nonsense written for his own amusement — a princess born of a nose, a king who wants nothing, sentences that fold in on themselves. The man who built Strawberry Hill and invented the Gothic novel here invented something closer to Sterne and Lear, a century early. ... Read more

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  • 50 Classic Gothic Works Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

    Dracula, Frankenstein, The Black Cat, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...

    by Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Golden Deer Classics, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Beckford, H.P. Lovecraft, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charles Robert Maturin, Washington Irving, James Hogg, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Charlotte Brontë, James Malcom Rymer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Horace Walpole ...
    The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe Caleb Williams - William Godwin Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock and Key Version) - Charles Robert Maturin The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving The ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    by Horace Walpole ...
    The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first gothic novel as it merges medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture. The book begins on the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella. Shortly before the wedding, however, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    by Horace Walpole ...
    "The Castle of Otranto" tells the story of Manfred, the lord of the Castle of Otranto, who seeks to maintain his family's lineage and power. When his son Conrad dies mysteriously on his wedding day, Manfred becomes obsessed with producing a male heir to secure his dynasty. He is willing to go to extreme lengths, including defying societal and moral conventions, to achieve his goal.The novel is ... Read more

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  • Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

    by Horace McCoy ...
    McCoy's hardboiled noir classic, about an Ivy League graduate's criminal rampage through the seedy underground and glitzy high society of an unnamed American cityTo escape prison, Ralph Cotter uses the same genius for planning and penchant for cold-hearted violence that helped earn him a spot in the slammer in the first place. On the lam in a city where he knows nobody, Cotter has nothing to lose, ... Read more

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  • Black Mask (Fall 2017)

    by Lester Dent, Horace McCoy, Herbert Koehl, Kent Richards, Hugh B. Cave, Stephen McBarron, Dwight V. Babcock, Day Keene, Wyatt Blassingame, Edgar Franklin, Arthur Rodman Bowker, Curt Siodmak, Kendell Foster Crossen, Rafael DeSoto ...
    Series series Black Mask
    Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time is back with an all-new story by the creator of Doc Savage, Lester Dent. Also featuring classic hard-boiled detective stories by Horace McCoy, Wyatt Blassingame, Day Keene, Herbert Koehl, Kent Richards, Stephen McBarron, Dwight V. Babcock, Hugh B. Cave, and Edgar Franklin, all from the golden age of pulp fiction. With vintage brush ... Read more

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  • Corruption City

    A Novel

    by Horace McCoy ...
    A young law professor is hired to clean up a city strangled by corruptionNemo Crespi's organization has a hand in everything from gambling rackets to hotels to newspapers. To combat him, the governor needs a special prosecutor he can trust, someone free of political ambitions . . . someone like John Conroy, a twenty-nine-year-old law professor as unlikely for the prosecutor job as anyone. Cynical, ... Read more

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  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

    by Horace McCoy ...
    Series series Serpent's Tail Classics
    During the Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon in return for three square meals a day and a chance at winning the big-money prize. Under the intense scrutiny of the media, corporate sponsors and obsessive fans, the competing couples are put through a series of gruelling and humiliating feats of endurance, until they begin to fight among themselves and betray each other. As days ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    by Horace Walpole ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 2 March 1797), was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors, and for his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto. ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    by Horace Walpole ...
    The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole is widely regarded as the first Gothic novel, a groundbreaking work that established many of the conventions that would define the genre for centuries to come. First published in 1764, the novel combines elements of mystery, romance, horror, and the supernatural, creating a dramatic and atmospheric narrative that has influenced countless later writers. The ... Read more

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